Last month, we spent nine days in the field with Jim Harris’s team in rural Phongsali province. We camped at the local dispensary and showered with cold river water, which was piped uphill to the village. The team hired two young women to cook, clean and launder. Our meals were served communally, outside, on...
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A retired Wisconsin principal now digs for explosives. Jim Harris crouches on one mud-stained knee, gingerly probing the dirt around a fist-sized bomb. A boy found it while digging for insects in the southern Laotian village of Phonephanpek. Harris is calm, but concerned. The hour is late, the sun painting everything ochre. “I hate...
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Farming in the developing world is never an easy occupation, but for farmers in Laos there is a particularly grave complication. Click here for full text.
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